Quantum Statistical Mechanics in the Natural Sciences :
[Book]
A Volume Dedicated to Lars Onsager on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
edited by Stephan L. Mintz, Susan M. Widmayer.
Boston, MA
Springer US
1974
(XII, 492 p. 6 illus.).
Studies in the Natural Sciences, A Series from the Center for Theoretical Studies, 4.
Section One Biology --;Life in the Early Days --;The Fluctuating Enzyme --;Diffusion Control in Biochemical Reactions --;Phase Transitions of Phospholipids --;Theory and Density Measurements of the Lipid Bilayer Phase Transition --;Stability of Helical Nucleic Acids --;Thermodynamic Perspectives and the Origin of Life --;Section Two Statistical Mechanics --;High Frequency Dielectric Response in Dipolar Systems --;Exact Derivation of the Onsager Limiting Law --;The Effect of Wall Charge on the Capillary Rise of Electrolytes --;Density of States of Topologically Disordered Amorphous Semiconductors --;Irreversibility --;Surface Specific Heat of Crystals. I --;Zeros of the Grand Partition Function --;Response, Relaxation and Fluctuation --;What is New in the Ising Model --;Critical Exponents Below Tc Via Skeleton Graphs (Ising-Like Case) --;Section Three Quantum Mechanics and Low Temperature Physics --;The Ghost of a Vanished Vortex Ring --;Propagation of Second Sound and Heat Pulses in Solid Helium Crystals --;Low Temperature and Macroscopic Quantization: Tools for Experimental Physicists --;Special Functions in the Computer Era --;Negative Temperatures in Type-II Superconductors --;Superfluidity in Two Dimensions --;List of Participants.